AutoFocus - Ein werkzeugprototyp zur entwicklung eingebetteter systeme

This article presents AutoFocus, a tool prototype for the development of distributed, embedded systems based on formal techniques. AutoFocus supports system development offering integrated, comprehensive and mainly graphical description techniques to specify different views as well as different levels of abstraction of a system. To avoid ill-defined specifications, consistency conditions on these system descriptions can be formulated and checked. Prototypes can be generated from executable specifications using a Java code generator. These prototypes can be executed and visualized within a simulation environment. System Properties can be formally verified using model checking tools such as μ-cke or SMV.